Staff Research Scientist, Vision-Language Autonomy (Remote)

General Motors LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 219,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Health Savings Account

Retirement savings plan

GM vehicle discounts

Relocation benefits

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Staff Research Scientist specializing in Vision-Language Models to push the frontier of autonomous driving. You will design, train, and optimize multimodal models and deploy them on onboard vehicle hardware, enabling real-time understanding and decision making.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across perception, planning and software teams, publish research at top conferences, and contribute to scalable, safe autonomous driving technologies for GM's global

Qualifications

• PhD required in a relevant technical field (AI/ML, robotics, CS or EE).
• 5+ years of AI/ML research and applied development experience.
• Deep expertise in modern ML architectures (transformers, multimodal systems).
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring abilities with ability to influence ML strategy.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and prototype Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action models for real-time autonomous driving.
• Lead onboard model optimization, including quantization, pruning, distillation, and compilation for low-latency edge hardware.
• Advance multimodal alignment; integrate camera/radar/LiDAR and prompts into unified architectures.
• Shape technical roadmaps and ML priorities aligned with safety and product milestones.
• Mentor a multidisciplinary team of ML engineers, software developers, and hardware specialists.
• Collaborate with perception, planning, and infrastructure teams to integrate models into the autonomous stack.
• Represent GM at top AI conferences; publish research and pursue patents.

Skills

AI/ML research

Transformers

Python

Communication

Mentoring

Education

PhD in Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Staff Research Scientist specializing in Vision-Language Models to push the frontier of autonomous driving. You will design, train, and optimize multimodal models and deploy them on onboard vehicle hardware, enabling real-time understanding and decision making.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across perception, planning and software teams, publish research at top conferences, and contribute to scalable, safe autonomous driving technologies for GM's global